http://www.nearfantastica.com/ http://www.nearfantastica.com/ News on all things Matthew Good and the Pink Pills for your Sanity. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:04:52 -0700 Near Fantastica .com en-us http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/cold-harbor.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/cold-harbor.html Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:25:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com If you haven't been paying attention to our forums lately, nows the time to start again. It's new demo season! Earlier last month, Matthew Good began posting demos for the tentatively named, Cold Harbor album. It started off with two songs on February 8th with " Set Me On Fire " and " I Once Saw A Magician Cut You In Half ." Which, if you haven't already seen, we've got lyrics for. Towards the end of last month, Mattew posted an instrumental piece, at the time labelled " My Song 2 " and [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/geoff-lloyd-has-passed-away.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/geoff-lloyd-has-passed-away.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:33:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com Geoff "Corndog" Lloyd, bassist of the late Matthew Good Band , first graced us with his presence in 2005. Someone had started a thread asking why Geoff had left the band and, surprisingly enough, he answered us. Geoff regaled us with stories of his life and liked to help out and fix bass tabs whenever someone got them wrong. While most of us never got to meet him in person, he always posted in such an intimate manner and made us all feel like one of his close friends. Lloyd seldom held anything back when he posted on the [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/us-tour-dates.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/us-tour-dates.html Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com Thanks to some detective work by forum poster uglyredhonda , we now have 17 more tentative tour dates for the US leg of the tour which brings us to 19 shows! As of now, it appears that the US tour will kick off on March 2010 in Seattle, Washington . Florida's Automatic Loveletter is set to open for the band in the US. All tour dates are available on our concerts calendar . Forum poster finboy has also uncovered some new information on the Great Whales of the Sea video shoot . Scott Cudmore will be [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/at-the-concert-hall.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/at-the-concert-hall.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:27:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com While the live at the Concert Hall contest may be over on Matthew Good's blog, it's just beginning on Bravo ! Starting today, November 25th, 2009 at NOON (EST) to December 7th, 2009 at 11:59PM (EST), you can e-mail bravoconcert@bravo.ca once a day for a chance to be in the audience for Matthew's live performance at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. Unfortunately for some, you must be a legal resident of the Greater Toronto Area and reside in one of the following telephone area codes: 416, 905, 647, or 289 to enter. As [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/vancouver-tour-begins.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/vancouver-tour-begins.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:44:00 -0800 Near Fantastica .com Matthew Good and the band kicked off their cross Canada tour tonight in Abbotsford, British Columbia. With Stuart Cameron, Milos Angelov, and Blake Manning returning for the tour, concert goers can expect to get what they've been waiting for. With the newly released Vancouver album, the lineup will include songs from the latest album, some fan favourites, and, as seen in rehersals, at least one new unreleased track. For those of you who have friended Matthew on Facebook, you can see a preview of what's to come on [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/more-tour-dates-video-opening-act.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/more-tour-dates-video-opening-act.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:16:00 -0800 Near Fantastica .com We have just posted seven more concert dates for the Canadian leg of Matthew Good's full band tour which brings us to twenty nine shows. The band Mother Mother , in promotion of their album O My Heart , will be opening for Matthew and the band. Check out our concert listings for more information. Vancouver is available for pre-order and is available for $13.99 in Canada and $24.49 in the United States . As of right now, the album is not yet available in the UK but we we will keep you apprised as to when it is. [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/pre-order-vancouver.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/pre-order-vancouver.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:58:00 -0800 Near Fantastica .com Vancouver is now available for pre-order through our website! Click the image above or "read more" for more information. Update (09/09/09) : Amazon is now offering a lower price guarantee! If the cost goes down after you pre-order, you will get the lower price. Update (09/10/09) : A video for Great Whales of the Sea is set to be made by director Scott Cudmore . You may pre-order the album through these links: Amazon Canada ($13.99 CAD) , Amazon USA ($24.49 USD) . Updated prices and pre-order [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/tour-dates-coming-in.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/tour-dates-coming-in.html Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:49:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com We've just posted three new dates in the events calendar. The first is an appearance by Matthew Good at the Ontario Shores' Imagine Film Festival . Matt is going to take part in an interview style presentation - play a few songs and then will take part in a meet and mingle event following the show for those who have tickets. Attendance to all our films are free and there is a nominal fee for the Matthew Good event (Oct. 8). $5 for the lecture event and $25 for both the presentation and the meet and mingle (food and drink [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/last-parade.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/last-parade.html Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:56:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com The first single off of the upcoming album Vancouver has been released! Last Parade is now up and streaming on Matthew Good's blog and likely your local radio stations. An updated tracklist has also been posted which notably leaves Life In Spite of Itself off the list. Sorry fans, maybe it'll end up as a secret track? For those of you asking about concert dates, Matthew posted a video up on his Facebook . If you have yet to friend him, he basically says that tour dates should be announced around September and [...] http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/possible-vancouver-coverart.html http://www.nearfantastica.com/news/possible-vancouver-coverart.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:28:00 -0700 Near Fantastica .com One of our forum posters recently noticed that Matthew Good's Twitter had a new backdrop. On the top left corner of the page is what appears to be the new album cover for Vancouver (also pictured below). The cover appears to, most appropriately, be a building in Vancouver. The font and colour scheme also appears to be the same one used on Live at Massey Hall . Vancouver will be released this October 6th, 2009! We will likely have pre-orders up soon so stay tuned daily for updates!